Sentence examples for return to captivity from inspiring English sources

The captured officers, having pledged not to take up arms against America again, were freed "on parole", meaning that they were duty bound to return to captivity if the Americans requested it.

Unsuccessful, she returned to captivity to face unspeakable punishments, both physical and mental.

Most drown, some are shot and a few are returned to captivity.

Yet, with winter falling, it became clear on Wednesday that the six cranes could go no farther, and five have already been returned to captivity as passengers on an airplane.

When the Estates at Amiens (October 1363) refused to ratify an irresponsible agreement between the king's replacement hostages and Edward III, John returned to captivity in London, where he died a few months later.

I expected the story of the lynx fleeing Dartmoor zoo to run and run, but it's ended with Flaviu being trapped on Dartmoor and "grumpily" returned to captivity.

All but three of the men were recaptured; the Gestapo shot 50 and returned the remainder to captivity.

What was really happening was Bergdahl trying to return to normalcy after years of captivity.

Looking to the New Testament book of Revelation, Rastas await their deliverance from captivity and their return to Zion, the symbolic name for Africa drawn from the biblical tradition.

This week on newyorker.com, Mark Singer writes about the photojournalist James Foley's choice to return to a war zone after escaping captivity.

Mark Singer writes about the photojournalist James Foley's return to a war zone after escaping captivity in Libya — for reasons that were modest, but not small.